How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

  • MudMan
    40·
    10 months ago

    Man, I’m not gonna relitigate this but no, Google Talk didn’t kill XMPP. XMPP is not, in fact, dead. WhatsApp killed Google Talk and pretty much every other competitor and XMPP would have been in that boat with or without Google Talk.

    This is gonna keep coming up, it’s gonna keep being wrong and I’m really not gonna bother picking this fight each and every single time.

    • SphksEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      And Reddit killed phpBB (kind of).
      And phpBB killed the newsgroups.
      Etc.

      You are right. Convenience killed the previous “protocol”.

    • RT RedréovičEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Did you bother to read the article or did you only decide to write this argument w/o any substantial basis?

  • ekZeppEnglish
    00·
    10 months ago10 months ago

    Also, Mammoth 2. The new app developed by Google for browsing Mastodont contents. I’m definitely not worry at all by that.

    EDIT

    Glad to be wrong on this one.

    • teolanEnglish
      00·
      10 months ago

      It’s developedby Google?

        • SeekPieEnglish
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          10 months ago10 months ago

          All-in on open source and the Fediverse, with support from Mozilla, Marc Benioff, Long Journey Ventures, and others.

          Don’t know if the “others” may include google.

          https://getmammoth.app/

  • RokinEnglish
    00·
    10 months ago

    So Google used Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” strategy and looks like Facebook is aiming to use ut as well

    • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago10 months ago

      These days, we just call it “the stages of enshitification”. And basically every large tech company is doing something like that

    • AuxEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      No, that article is full of bull shit.